by Nancy E Dollahite | May 26, 2018 | Middle East, Politics
I want to follow up on what Qaisar Shareef has written about Palestine and Israel (“Holy War in the Promised Land,” May 19) by calling attention to the writings of Gene Sharp, who advocated nonviolence – or, as he termed it, political defiance, as an...
by Qaisar Shareef | May 19, 2018 | Middle East
A grand event took place in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 when, with extreme fanfare, the U.S. Embassy in Israel was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The city was recognized by the U.S. government for the first time as the capital of the state of Israel, putting aside...
by Nancy E Dollahite | Feb 24, 2018 | Book reviews, Middle East, Travel
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh offers a personal account of what it is like to have the place you love taken away piece by piece and be helpless to stop the loss. It is a sad book, yet also lovely, giving one view of the...